{"id":141122,"date":"2026-03-17T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:52:07","slug":"two-arrested-in-contractor-fraud-scheme-in-lower-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141122\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested in contractor fraud scheme in Lower Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MERION, PA \u2014 Police are seeking additional victims in a contractor fraud investigation that led to two arrests last week.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Fox and Scott Bradley were arrested March 12 in connection with high-dollar fraud schemes involving fake contracting businesses, according to Lower Merion Township Police.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were operating under the business name \u201cPJS Paving &amp; Masonry Corp,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe Fox and Bradley also used the names \u201cOrchard Paving\u201d and \u201cPerfect Paving LLC,\u201d all of which are associated with fraudulent business practices.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Fox and Bradley were born Patrick and Johnny Joseph Quinn and are believed to have changed their names before entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests followed several investigations over the past 12 months into contractor fraud schemes in the Greater Philadelphia region.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who believes they may be a victim of contractor fraud by Bradley or Fox is asked to contact Lower Merion Police at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newportdispatch.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"492a26273d3b282a3d263b2f3b283c2d0925263e2c3b242c3b20262767263b2e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION, PA \u2014 Police are seeking additional victims in a contractor fraud investigation that led to two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-141122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}